Ouran High School Host Club
A scholarship student mistaken for a boy and conscripted into the school's host club.
Ouran High School Host Club opens with a main title sequence of 88 seconds.
At 88 seconds, it opens well above the 58-second median for animation sequences in this catalogue.
It arrived on Nippon TV in 2006, when Hajime no Ippo, Death Note and Nana were also on the network.
The opening titles
Season 1
88sPosted by Crunchyroll.
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